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Amanda Watts, CNN The wife of Brittney Griner, the American professional basketball player jailed in Russia, said Thursday she thinks it’s going to take “mercy” from Russian President Vladimir Putin to get Griner home. “I feel like at this point it’s going to take Putin to have that same mindset and say ‘You know what,

By Kiely Westhoff, Kristina Sgueglia and Ray Sanchez, CNN The city of Rochester, New York, has reached a $12 million settlement with the estate of Daniel Prude, who died in 2020 in police custody. Prude’s son sued the city in federal court for alleged gross negligence and wrongful death. “After more than two years, the

By Aya Elamroussi and Sonia Moghe, CNN The family of Hae Min Lee, a teenager whose killing in 1999 was profiled on the first season of the podcast “Serial,” have asked a Maryland court to halt legal proceedings related to her homicide to address alleged violations of a state victim rights law. The motion filed

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Just weeks after Ron DeSantis made a very public display of his efforts to keep migrants from coming to Florida, Hurricane Ian’s destruction is drawing a growing number of immigrants to the Republican governor’s state. “They’re arriving from New York, from Louisiana, from Houston and Dallas,” says Saket Soni, executive

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Hundreds of companies are testing out a four-day work week to determine if employees can maintain the same level of productivity despite the reduction in work time. So far, the experience has been positive, and some experts say the results could shift the perspective of remote work in the near future.

By Jason Hanna, Aya Elamroussi and Taylor Romine, CNN A suspect already in custody in connection with the kidnapping and killing of four California family members — including a baby girl — was formally arrested late Thursday in the case, a sheriff’s office said. Jesus Manuel Salgado, 48, was arrested on four counts of murder

By Amir Vera, Leyla Santiago, Will Brown and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Residents in southwestern Florida have been bearing the brunt of Hurricane Ian, and frustration with the government response is beginning to set in a little more than a week since the storm slammed into the state. And while the local, state and federal governments

By Eric Levenson and Rebekah Riess, CNN The man accused of intentionally driving his SUV through a crowd of Christmas parade attendees in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last year, killing six people and wounding dozens more, represented himself as court proceedings began at his homicide trial Thursday amid concerns over his mental health. Darrell E. Brooks, 40,

By Paradise Afshar and Kaylene Chassie, CNN A professor was shot and killed Wednesday on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, authorities said, and a suspect has been arrested. University police first received a call around 2 p.m. local time reporting that a 46-year-old former student had entered the John W. Harshbarger Building, University

By Dakin Andone, CNN Texas has executed John Henry Ramirez, whose spiritual adviser was allowed to pray aloud and “lay hands” on him as he died after a US Supreme Court ruling led to new guidelines in his case and in similar requests in prisons across the country. Ramirez, 38, was killed Wednesday evening by

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN Federal authorities have accused a New Jersey woman of concealing approximately 15,000 rainbow-colored fentanyl pills in a Lego box as part of a drug trafficking scheme, in what US Drug Enforcement Administration authorities said in a news release is the largest seizure of rainbow fentanyl in New York City history. Latesha